Re: BigKev

Posted by BigKev On 2021/4/26 8:35:03

A weekend project. My workshop space is ever evolving with interests. So I want a wall system that was a bit more felxible for the future. I've used GearTrack over the years, and its great in general. But expensive and every "hook" or attachments costs money and there are only so many options. So I decided to strip all that way back to the bare walls and install French Cleats. Basically, I paint a 4 foot tall black stripe on the wall to give some contrast, and then the 1x4's were cut with 45 degree bevel and double screwed into each stud. Each cleat is about 3 1/4 tall, with 3 1/2 spacing between each cleat. Now I can make any fixture I want to hang anywhere I want on the wall and it attached and moves whenever I want to rearrange. I can ever grab something off the wall like drill bits and move them over to an area I am working and then hang them over there. Each fixture has the reverse cleat so gravity holds everything in place. They are strong. I can grab one of the wall cleats by fingertips and pull myself up off the floor. I've pretty much built each fixture out of various pieces of scrap wood I've had.

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